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Mark Pocan: “At least four Republican senators voted for some of the…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

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Do you release information about this topic? Let me talk about this one, okay. Because two aspects of it. One, I have heard very directly from a Democratic senator that At least four Republican senators voted for some of the nominees for secretaries that they did not want to because of threats to their family members. This is from some of the MAGA crowd. It's not that we all get death threats. I have probably more than I could count. My office doesn't even tell me all the ones. (25:44–25:55)

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Asserts that threats to family members influenced at least four Republican senators' votes on nominees.

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